System Requirements

Before installing Adaptive Server, ensure that your system is updated with the latest patches and system requirements. Do not use a patch that is earlier than the version suggested for your operating system. Use the patch recommended by the operating system vendor, even if it supersedes the patch listed.

To list all currently installed patches and display the operating system version level, enter:
rpm -q -a

Linux Requirements

Adaptive Server 15.7 supports Pentium and higher chip sets.

Intel Xeon AMD Opteron systems – require a minimum RAM of 512MB and the following updates:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 update: 5
    • kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
    • glibc-2.5-18
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
    • kernel-smp-2.6.16.21-0.8
    • glibc-2.4-31.2
IBM pSeries Server with POWER5 CPU systems – require a minimum RAM of 512MB and the following updates:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 update:5
    • kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
    • glibc-2.5-18
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
    • kernel-smp-2.6.16.21-0.8
    • glibc-2.4-31.2
Required libraries for Linux:
  • openmotif-2.3.1-2.el5
  • libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
  • libXt-1.0.2-3.1.fc6
  • libXtst-1.0.1-3.1
  • libXmu-1.0.2-5
  • libXext-1.0.1-2.1
  • libSM-1.0.1-3.1
  • libICE-1.0.1-2.1
  • libX11-1.0.3-9.el5
Linux 64-bit x64 system memory requirements are:
  • Minimum RAM required for Adaptive Server, with default stack size, packet size, and user log cache size – 127 MB
  • Minimum RAM per additional user – approximately 324KB
  • Default user stack size – 128KB
Linux Disk Space Requirements
Product Linux X64 Requirements Linux X64 PSeries Requirements
Adaptive Server typical installation 921MB 1092MB
Default databases created during installation 306MB 164MB
Total 1071MB 1256MB

Ensure that you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6.

Information about the required operating system patches is available from the Java Web site for Linux.